Today Aunt Gladys, Kathy, Rich, and my great nephew Wesley drove down to Georgetown to visit the final resting place of my paternal great grandparents -- Holy Rood Cemetery. My great grandfather, Lawrence Hogan immigrated from Limerick City, Ireland at the age of 17 around the time of the Civil War. He met my great grandmother, Sarah Carlin, in Connecticut. Now they rest together in love forever on a beautiful grassy hill through summers of sunshine and under winter blankets of snow.
A much more recent ancestral home sits high on a hill on Veirs Mill Road in Rockville, MD. The house is where my dad and his brothers and sisters grew up, and it still stands on a portion of the Hogan homestead occupied by my cousin Greg Campbell and his family. The lov
e and warmth that fills the old ancestral home (built in 1927) is as apparent now as it was when the previous generation lived, and loved, and cried here. The moment you walk onto the porch and through the kitchen door, you know you have found a home.
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